United States intelligence community

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It is generally said there are 16 intelligence agencies, but some have fairly autonomous components, and there is at least one, and probably more organizations and components whose existence is not public.

ODNI

In the Office of the DNI are a number of interagency centers and working groups. These include:

Washington Post analysis

The Washington Post did a study of the US intelligence community which they called "Top Secret America: a hidden world growing beyond control"[13] They reported "1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies" and "An estimated 854,000 people" were involved, but "it's impossible to tell whether the country is safer because of all this spending and all these activities."